xdm works but startx fails

2003-08-15 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ My Thinkpad R32 (just installed 'testing') loads X just fine after booting, but if I exit and then later type "startx" it fails. My XF86Config-4 is included below. I diff'd a log file from a successful start (calling it 'xdm log') with one generated right after shutting down X and runnin

testing: dist-upgrade to perl-5.8 removes modules

2003-06-01 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ I'm running testing, and a week or two ago apt [dist-upgrade] wanted to install a new Perl (5.8) to replace my current 5.6.1. I've no special preference for 5.6x, but apt also wants to remove several Perl modules on which I depend. To wit: Digest::MD5 appears to be replaced with libmd5-p

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-28 Thread Randall Hansen
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:27:25 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I see merit in simply saying that binary packages > cannot be automatically removed to allow for an upgrade of a doc > package. I dislike the idea of having different rules for doc > packages. To the extent

sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ I'm trying to install the sylpheed-doc package, but it conflicts with the slypheed package (see below). This strikes me as odd, but I don't know enough about debs to debug it. I installed the doc package, copied the files, then installed Sylpheed again (which removed the doc package,

Re: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall Hansen
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:16:51 -0800 "deFreese, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message----- > > From: Randall Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' > Use su - T

making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ When I 'su' to root on my machine, my bash user environment (aliases, path, etc.) gets replaced by root's login environment. How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' while leaving root's login environment alone? TIA, Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-14 Thread Randall Hansen
This all started so simply - I just wanted the mysql DBI module. So I fired up CPAN for the first time (perl -MCPAN -e shell), went through the configuration, and then watched as it downloaded and installed Perl 5.6.1. Oops. Debian.org doesn't even list a Perl 5.6.1; the most recent they have is 5.

[debian-users] bride of 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Randall Hansen
Many thanks to all the good people who replied. I agree with those who prefer editing text files to using (e.g.) linuxconf, but it's hunting down those files which is causing me trouble. I put 3c59x into /etc/modules and that did part of the trick. Then edited /etc/network/interfaces so now eth0 i

[debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Randall Hansen
Hello folks ~ I'm trying to get my 3Com 3c900B-TPO working under Debian 2.2.18pre21. Here's what I've tried, and what I know, or think I know :P - Debian installer didn't detect the card. - The card's not detected by Debian at boot (I found no 'eth0' in dmesg) - 'ifconfig' lists only "lo" (loc